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Is Enmeshment Hurting Your Relationships?
Enmeshment refers to a dysfunctional relationship pattern lacking clear or healthy boundaries. The level of closeness often becomes constraining and detrimental. Over time, this pattern can result in mental health problems, developmental delays, and serious problems...
Understand & Overcoming 3 Types of Trauma: Acute, Chronic, and Complex
Three types of trauma include; acute trauma, chronic trauma, and complex trauma. There are additional types and subtypes that can affect everyone differently. Research shows that approximately 60% of adults indicate a history of abuse or difficult family issues during...
How Do You React to Uncertainty? Understanding Your Body’s Response
In many parts of the world, we are closing in on a full year of the Covid-19 pandemic. While there may be a light at the end of the tunnel with increasing vaccine availability and distribution, we are certainly not yet out of the woods. Whatever this year...
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Surviving Infidelity: Strategies From a Therapist
Infidelity is one of the most painful experiences to endure. The feelings of confusion, shock, anger, and hurt can be overwhelming and insurmountable. For many, this betrayal can incredibly traumatic. Although difficult, infidelity does not have to be a relationship...
Self Sabotage: How to Find Relief
If you've reviewed the past sessions on this series on the subconscious, you will have learned about the power of the subconscious mind, the influence of limiting beliefs, and how traditional therapy and hypnotherapy can be used to work through mental obstacles. You...
What Is Trauma?
Trauma refers to the emotional and physical responses experienced after a real or perceived life-threatening event. Not every event is traumatic- people react in all sorts of ways to danger. But trauma can fundamentally change someone’s sense of safety, comfort,...
Hypnotherapy & CBT: Overcoming Binge Eating
Everyone has a relationship with food and for many, that relationship is unhealthy. While eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia are well known, binge eating disorder can often go unnoticed by individuals and their loved ones. In the third session,...
What Is Structural Family Therapy?
Salvador Minuchin developed structural family therapy in the 1960s after working as a pediatrician in Argentina. After spending time exclusively working with children, he began to realize that treating them alone didn’t inherently solve their problems. His model of...
How to Transform Self Sabotage Into Self Improvement
In the first session of this four-part series, clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula and hypnotherapist Grace Smith, discussed the science and similarities behind hypnosis and traditional therapy. In session 2, Dr. Ramani and Smith dive deeper into how our...
The Signs You Grew up in a Toxic Family
Some people can easily recognize the toxicity in their family systems. In these cases, the dysfunction is obvious. Others may dismiss their experiences as normal or even as deserved. At times, this kind of toxicity can even be challenging. It’s hard to heal from...